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Once there was a dayWe were together all the wayAn endless path unbrokenBut now there is a timeA torture less sublimeOur souls are locked and frozen

Once we were years ahead but now those thoughts are deadLet me goAll hopeless fantasies are making fools of meLet me goI walk alone and yet I never say goodbyeLet me goA change of heart a change of mind and heaven fell that nightLet me go

I tried but could not bringThe best of everythingToo breathless then to wonderI died a thousand timesFound guilty of no crimeNow everything is thunder

Daytime all I want isNighttime I dont need theDaytime all I want isNighttime I dont need the

The best years of our livesThe hope of it survivesThe facts of life unspokenThe only game in townIll turn the last card downAnd now the bank is broken

Found guilty of no crimeThey were the best years of our livesIll turn the last card down.

The incident began at 5 p.m. when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.

Seems like a case of what would otherwise be considered a case of racial profiling, no?

Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go downWhen a cop pulled him over to the side of the roadJust like the time before and the time before that.In [Long Branch] that's just the way things go.If you're [white] you might as well not show up on the street'Less you wanna draw the heat.

"OK, so if you're walking around on the public streets - not driving, not trespassing - the police can demand that you show them your ID (papers)?

I don't think I like that."

That could have been a legitimate issue discussed in relation to the Gates case, exactly how far does a policeman's authority extend and what are the reasonable expectations someone should have who isn't breaking the law, but of course it got drowned out by the fake racism charges. It was an opportunity lost for constructive civic education.

OK, so if you're walking around on the public streets - not driving, not trespassing - the police can demand that you show them your ID (papers)?

From the ABC report, not sure if this constitutes probable cause?

"It was pouring rain, Dylan was soaked and wandering alone, ....

When Dylan wandered into the yard of a home that had a "For Sale" sign on it, the home's occupants became spooked by his appearance and called police with a report of an "eccentric-looking old man" in their yard, Long Branch Police said. One of the occupants even went so far as to follow Dylan as he continued on down the street."

Kcom, in the Gates case, the police received a report that two men appeared to be breaking into a house. If true, this would be a crime, and in fact, that very house had had the door damaged by a previous breakin attempt, so the possibility was not far-fetched. They needed to know that Gates belonged there before they walked away possibly leaving a burglary or home invasion in progress.

In this case, there was no apparent crime in progress, the man was just walking down the street.

Do you really not see a difference here?

I walked to the corner grocery store in the rain yesterday evening (had an umbrella) to get strawberries to put on my cottage cheese for a snack. I didn't have ID on me, just a few bucks for the strawberries and my door key. Thank God the cops didn't stop me.

It's not illegal to walk around in the rain, even without an umbrella.

Elderly Jewish man wandering around peeking into houses in the pouring rain? There's gotta be a comedy bit in here somewhere. "That's alright, I'm okay. I'll stand out here in the rain. No, I don't have to come inside. I'm comfortable being soaking wet. I get this kind of treatment all the time from my children. I'm used to it. Thank you, though. I'll be alright."